Hi everyone. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.I have a bit of a conundrum surrounding my wedding ceremony (elopement ??) and reception, and would love some input and advice.Our plans thus far, is that on a Wednesday later this year, we are going to a very expensive, small hotel not far from our homes, and are having our ceremony there. We were restricted by the hotel as to how many people could attend (4 guests plus photographer and celebrant), and so we decided not to invite family, and just take our 2 sets of couple best friends. Since 3/4 of our parents are remarried, and we have a significant number of siblings, no matter what, some family would get offended. The hotel for the ceremony was one thing we were set on about the wedding, and so we settled on best friends.So that we still get to see friends and family, we are having a big cocktail party on the Friday afterwards, that we have put a fair bit of money into with drinks and food, and this will essentially be there large portion of the celebration.My question is about what we should actually do at the cocktail party?We are not sure whether we should do a grand entrance, or just be there to greet guests as they arrive.Whether we should do some kind of "ceremony" to make it more legitimate for other guests (we aren't trading rings at the actual ceremony, just doing hand-fasting, so were thinking something else for the reception?). Some family members like my father have said they "don't care" about the reception, and are kinda upset about not attending the ceremony, but that's another story, and what can you do.I'm assuming we'll do speeches, so how do we time these when we have no DJ or anything? (only 50-60ish people attending).Any other advice or stories from those who have done a post-elopement-ish party would be greatly appreciated.Thanks again. via /r/weddingplanning http://ift.tt/2tCwsyu
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